We had one in the other day that could not pronounce "lethargy." And then he butchered "dyspnea" and several other words that were WRITTEN on his power point presentation...I mean, you need to make the effort to learn how to pronounce the words you KNOW you will be saying.

He used to work at a rental car place. He told us this along with the fact that he was let go from his previous job.

"And another thing. When I took this job I thought I was going to get to take a lot of drugs, but all they've given me so far are a bunch of pamphlets and some plastic models of the nervous system. I've tried swallowing them, smoking them, snorting them, and injecting them, but so far I'm not feeling a thing. I should have known that Craigslist job posting was too good to be true."

My first reaction, "Oh wow," how embarassing for everyone in the room. Of course the rep was probably too uninformed to be embarassed. From what I recall, to even get an interview for a position as a drup rep a four year degree was a must...wonder where this person graduated from??? Just, "Oh wow."You certainly do have the nuttball maganet somewhere in your practice Dr. G!

Last week, a brand-new rep aggressively interrupted my conversation with a patient to introduce himself.He explained that he is an MBA who actually wants to join the marketing team of Big Drug Company, but they require him to do 6 months of sales first.

With all the cutbacks in the pharma sales force over the past couple of years, it's hard to believe that these bozos are the ones who still have jobs.

I got into a conversation with one last year who was trying to peddle krill oil (as opposed to regular old fish oil). Might have helped if she had known anything about Omega 3 apart from "krill oil is full of it". Full of it. Hmm.

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